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H. P. HANSEN. TYPE 'SETTING MACHINE. APPLICATION FILED FEB. 28, |914. RENE-WED NOV. 20. I9I5 Patented June 27, 1916.

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HANS PETER-HANSEN, OF NEW YORK, N. Y.

TYIE-SETTING MACHINE.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented .rane 2 7, raie.

Original application filed Septemberzo, 1911, Serial No. 650,400. Divided and this application iled February 28, 1914, Serial No. 821,700. -Renewed November 20, 1915. Serial No. 62,638.

To all fwhiombt may concern.'

Be 1t known that I, HANS PETER HANSEN,

a citizen of Denmark, residing at 1496 Vyse' avenue, New York city, county of Bronx, and State of New York, have invented'certain new and usefullmprovements in Type- A sort to their proper storing places which they may be successively removed by v Setting Machines, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to a typesetting machine of novel construction and more particularly to novel means for assorting type and automatically conveying typeV offlike rom the typesetting mechanism proper. This application is a division of an application iled by me September 20, 1911 under c Serial number 650,400.

In the. accompanying drawing: Figure 1 is a side elevation, partly broken away, of type assorting means embodying my invention, Fig. 2 a top view thereof, Fig. 3 a vertical section online 3 3, Fig. 2, Fig. 4 an enlarged sectional elevation of the right hand end 'of Fig. Fig. 4, Figs. 6 and 7 are respectively a front view of the rear type-carrying bar, and a rear view of the front type-distributing bar, the bars being shown in a position which they will assume by tilting them outward on their lower longitudinal edges, Fig. 8 is an end view of the assembled bars and intermediate type, Fig. 9 a perspective rear view of the front bar and of a type engaged thereby,

and Fig. 10 shows a number of types in side view. y 1

The upper portion of the machine frame 10 supports a traverse 11 provided with bearings 12 for the main driving lshaft 13. The latter is' by a suitable worm drive 14 connected to the vertical shaft 15 of a type cylinder or receptacle 16, shaft 15 being journaled in a step bearing 17 and in traverse 11. Cylinder 16 is provided with a plurality of peripherally arranged longitudi- 18 that are adapted to contain type 19 of mixed -sort. The pockets18 which are open at their ends and along the circumference of the cylinder, are as to expose the heads 20 of type 19 as clearly illustrated in Fig. 3. -The bottom type of each pocket 18 rests upon a stationary plate 21 which is provided with an opening 22 adapted for the passage of a type 19 and located above a chute 23 for such 3, Fig. 5 an end view ofv type. As thus fai' described, it will be seen that shaft 13 imparts to cylinder 16 a relatively slow rotary movement. As the pockets 18 become thus consecutively alined with opening 22, the bottom type of such pockets are successively discharged into chute 23 to be .then assorted in manner hereinafter described. In order to permit but the bottom ever s uch pocket arrives above opening 22, a checking member 24 is provided. The latter is furnished with a pair of upper spaced type of each pocket 18 `to be released whenribs 25 which, during the rotation of cylinder 16 engage the reduced sections 26 of the second type from the bottom so that but the bottom type Vof each stack is permitted to drop while traveling across opening 22.

The chute 23 is so formed as to tilt the type delivered through slot 22, from a horizontal positioninto a vertical position face downward, for which purpose, said chute is composed of an upper vertical portion and a lower quadrantal portion. Chute 23 is provided with a pair of opposed 'guide rails, each rail being likewise composedAk of an upper vertical portion rantal portion 27 1. These rails are adapted to be engaged by a pair of opposed recesses 28 formed between the head 20 and a pair of guide ribs 29 extending laterally from the type-body and located in proximity to the head. The type are conveyed along said rails by means of the fingers 30 of an endless feed chain 31. The latter engages corresponding sprocket wheels of a pair of shafts 32,. 33, the shaft 32 being driven from a shaft 34Vthrough worm drive 35, spindle 36 and beveled gear wheels 37. The fingers 30 depending from the lower run of chain 31, are accommodated within a passage 38 formed between a pair of horizontally disposed typedistributing bars 39, 40, passage38 constituting a continuation of chute 23. The fingers 30 are so spaced and are driven with such a speed relatively to that of cylinder 16, that but a single type is received between each pair of adjacent fingers 30. As clearly illustrated in Fig. 4, the type are properly guided by rails 27 during their travel through chute 23, the lower quadrantal rail portions 27a being arranged concentrically to shaft 33. After leaving chute 23,the type travel along bars 39, 40 and are here suspended face downward by means of peculiarly arranged rails extending inwardly 27 and a lower quad- A654 whileI its rib 45 will then from said bars tol be finally dropped off said rails at different points. The latter are so selected as to cause the released type to' in length'frombottom to top, whereas'they .are so disposed on bar 39 that their right hand ends are in substantially vertical alineform a stepped line. The top rails of each set are separated from one another by intervening gaps 42 as clearly illustrated in Figs. 7 and 9. Bar 40 is provided with in- Wardly extending type-carrying rails 43A arranged likewise above one another, thenum ber of said'rails being one less than that of the sets of rails 41. The rails 43. also 'increase in length from bottom to top, the right hand ends thereof being arranged in substantially vertical alinement and coinciding with the right hand end of set I of rails 41, while the left hand end of any rail 43 terminates at the right hand end of the co- 30 operating set of rails 41. In other words the first rail 431 terminates at the right hand end.

of the set II of rails 41, the second rail 432 terminates at the right hand end of set III and so on, the longest rail 438 terminating at the right .hand end of set IX of rails 41. In addition to the guide ribs 29, the type are provided with type-carrying ribs 44 and type-releasing ribs 45 said ribs extending from opposite sides of the type-body. Ribs 44, 45 are differently disposed for different sorts of type, each individual sort being distinguished over the other type by4` a characteristic arrangement of said ribs. Each rib 44 is designed for engagement with a selected rib 43 of a bar -40, while each rib 45 `is designed for engagement with a selected rib 41 of bar 39. The several type are subdivided into classes the number of which corresponds to the number of sets of rails 41 and vice versa. The type of each class have carrying ribs 44 of like disposition so as to be fed along one and the same rail 4 3 to that set of rails 41 from which they are to be consecutively released. Thus for instance, the

55 typel19, 19b -(Fig. 10)-are provided with carrying ribs 44 that are designed to be supported y the top rail 43S. After leaving rail 43, the type 19a will be suspended by (means of rib 45 from the top rail `419of set 60 IX until it looses its support and thus drops into a channel 46 which is adapted to convey the same to the storing place of type of like szt (not shown). The type19" will also -be supported by its rib .44 on: rail 43s,

. ing rib 45 is missing,

numbered I to IX. The rails of each set.

ment (Fig. 7) While their left hand ends' to accommodate the type engage ,one 'of the shorter rails 41 of set IX, say rail 41b to be dropped into its individual channel 46. Type 19 will be carried along rail 437 to be released by one of the shorter' rails 41 oi set VIII, etc. On some of the type, the releasin which case the type is dropped as soon as it has left the carrying rail 43 that heretofore supported the same. Thus for instance the type 19d will be re# leased immediately after its rib 41 has left say rail 435. Finally with the type 19 both of the ribs 44,)45 are missing, so that the type will be released immediately vafter leaving guide rail portion 27a. Thus 19 illustrates the type which is first released while 19 represents the type last discharged.

It is obvious that there must be a limited play between rails 27* Aand between the heads 20 and ribs 29 ofthe typein order to prevent jamming of the type. As this play would permita slight tilting of the typeon the .horizontal terminal 27"V of `the chute-rail which might tend to. prevent a proper engagement of the type-ribs 44, 45 with the assorting rails 43, 41, a comparatively short f'ail 47 is provided on bar 40 that isslightly spaced from'rail 271 and is designed to engage the upper face of one of the ribs 29... This rail 47 will right the type and thus effect a proper engagement of the same with ribs 41, 43. I

. It will be seen that by my invention novel and effective means are provided 'for automatically assorting mixed type'so that type of like sort may he gathered at their individual storing places ready for the subsequent settingoperation.

I claim: 1 1. In a device of the character described, a substantially horizontal type-passage adapted to accommodate a type, a lurality of type-carrying rails' arranged a ve one another and formed at one side of said passage, said rails increasing in length from bottom to top, a plurality of sets of typereleasing rails likewise arranged above one another and formed at the other side"of said passage, the' type-releasing rails of each set also increasing in length' from bottom' to top, and means for the type along said passage.

2. In a device of the character described, a movable receptacle havin vertically ar ranged Vopen-ended type-pociets adapted to contain type of mixed sort, a type-chute, 12 means for djschar the bottom type fromconsecutive pockets into said chute, a sub-V stantially horizontal type-passage adapted i.. .ya ...m fermera seto -ca 'graf grauy increasing in len from bottom to top and formed at one side Yof said passage, a. pluralityrof second sets of rel rails Vformed at the other side o the passage, the

rails of Yeach second set likel bottom to top,

wise gradually increasing' in length from rail-sets being adapted to be engaged by the type, means for conveying the type from the chute toward the type-passage and along said passage, and typefreceiving channels arranged below the type-passage.

3. In a device of the character described, a' rotatable type-cylinder having vertically arranged open-ended type-pockets adapted to contain stacks of mixed type, a station ary plate mounted below the cylinder for supporting the bottom type of said stacks, said plate being provided withl a slot with which the type-.pockets are adapted to register, means located in proximity ,to said slot, for retaining the second type from the bottom while a pocket registers With saidslot, a curved type-chute communicating' with the slot, means for guiding the type discharged from the slot along said chute,a substantially horizontal type-asserting passage communicating with said chute,.and means for feeding the vtype along said passage.

4. In a device of the character described,-

a pair of substantially horizontal spaced bar's that form an intervening passage both of the first and secondiplurality of tylgie-carrying rails arranged above one another and extending from one of said bars into the passage, said rails in` creasing in length from bottom to top, a plurality of sets of type-releasing rails likewise arranged above one another and eX- tending from the other bar into the passage, the type-releasing rails of each set also increasing in length from bottom to top, and means for feeding a type along said passage. 5.l In a device of the character described,

a substantially horizontal passage adapted to accommodate a type face downward, said 'passage being providedwith type-carrying rails that increase in length from bottom to ltop and with sets of type-releasing rails, y

the rails of each set likewise increasing in length from bottom to top, while the type is furnished with a pair Yof ribs, one rib being adapted to engage a selected typecarrylng rail and the other rib being adapt' ed to engage a selected type-releasing rail. HANS PETER'HANSEN.

Witnesses:

ARTHUR E. ZUMPE, FRANK v. BRmsEN. 

